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Convergence 2012

April 17, 2012

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Agenda

Welcome

Convergence Top Ten

Questions

Next Steps

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Agenda

Welcome

Convergence Top Ten

Questions

Next Steps



#10 – Taste for Southern BBQ Convergence 2012 held in Houston

10,000 attendees

Consumed over 1 ton of barbeque brisket

5,000 lbs of excess food donated to the city of Houston

Convergence 2013 – New Orleans

Mar 18th -21st 2013

Architecture

Music

Food

Pub Crawl



#9 American Idol Fan Customer Welcome Reception featured the band Daughtry

Minute Maid Stadium

Great Fun


http://cf.daughtryofficial.com/sites/daughtry/files/official_photos/Daughtry_1_0.jpg


#8 Where in the World is Colin Powell

Colin Powell was a Keynote Speaker at Convergence

Inspiration

Look to the future

Convergence offers tracks on:

Products

Leadership

Marketing

Innovation



#7 Flock Together Join a Community

User Groups

Birds of a Feather

Lot’s of Networking opportunities

Structured – sessions, round tables

Unstructured – Airplanes, buses, meals

1900 meetings

550 learning opportunities



#6 Opportunity to Give Back Volunteer Opportunities

Habitat for Humanity

Independent Heights

Food Pantry

Community Garden

MD Anderson Cancer Center

World Vision



#5 Market your Organization Networking opportunities

Share the Spotlight – videos and keynote vignettes

Convergence Customer Excellence Awards

Dynamic Business Award – Dentsply International

Champion – Kevin Bowman - Celluphone

Cloud Transformation – Specialists On Call, United Stationers Supply

Global Business Excellence - Tesco

Industry Excellence – Accuray, Centene, Farabi Petrochemicals,

Ongoing Evangelism – Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield

Operation Agility - Safety-Kleen Systems

Productivity – Saris Cycling Group

Technology Innovation – Ball Corporation,

Bedeschi SpA,Computer Data Source



#4 Read all about it Encouraged to provide feedback

Convergence

#CONV12: Convergence 2012 conference in Houston, TX

AX

#AX2012: Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 release

#AXUG: Dynamics AX User Group

GP

#MSDYNGP12: Microsoft Dynamics GP “12” release

#MSDYNGPSDT: Support Debugging Tool

#GPUG: Dynamics GP User Group

CRM

#MSDYNCRM

#CRMUG: Dynamics CRM User Group


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#3 Talk to the Experts Sessions provided by Product Managers

Round tables

User Group meetings

Expo and Partner Solutions

One on One meetings with Microsoft

“I would say that Convergence was certainly worthwhile. I got the most out of the interaction with vendors at the Expo, MVP roundtables, hands-on labs, and certainly the ability to meet with Microsoft staff one-on-one.” Rudy Chavez ~ Trek Bikes



#2 Leveraging your MS investment SQL 2012

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb500435.aspx

GP:

https://mbs.microsoft.com/customersource/documentation/systemrequirements/mdgp_sql2012supportedfeatures.htm?printpage=false&sid=de5tmlv30m1kzex0epa1tsxd&stext=SQL 2012

CRM:

https://mbs2.microsoft.com/Knowledgebase/kbdisplay.aspx?wtntzsmnwukntmmytpnryvznnpwyswvqnllyqoknntrpxlmx

Sharepoint

Role tailored clients

Office

Power Pivot






#1 Product Roadmap & Innovation Kevin Turner Keynote – Trends in Technology

Cloud Strategies

GP and NAV

New Product Releases and schedules

CRM Online

AX2012 R2

NAV2013

GP2013

SL2011 R2



Agenda

Welcome

Convergence Top Ten

Questions

Next Steps



Welcome

Convergence Top Ten

Questions

Next Steps



Upcoming Convergence Re-Cap Webcasts

•GP 2010

•GP 2013 Features

•Managed Reporter

•Enabling Business

•Big Data

•Social

•Cloud

•Mobile

• AX2012 Features

• AX2012 Upgrades

• BI/Reporting

GP 4/24 CRM 5/1 AX 5/8


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